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Medical Devices infected by WannaCry Ransomware in US hospitals

May 22, 2017

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According to Forbes, the dreaded WannaCry ransomware has infected medical devices in at least two hospitals in the United States.

WannaCry infected 200,000 computers across 150 countries in a matter of hours last week, it took advantage of a tool named “Eternal Blue”, originally created by the NSA, which exploited a vulnerability present inside the earlier versions of Microsoft Windows. This tool was soon stolen by a hacking group named “Shadow Brokers” which leaked it to the world in April 2017.

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